Arab summit opens, leaders struggle with multiple rifts

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* Arab official says various disputes cause deep wound * Gulf row unlikely to take centrestage * More aid for Syria is likely By Sylvia Westall and Amena Bakr KUWAIT, March 25 (Reuters) - Arab leaders struggling with an array of foreign policy disputes opened an annual summit on Tuesday to try to forge a common stand on regional crises such as Syria's war, and on what many of them see as the menace of Iranian-U.S. rapprochement. The gathering in Kuwait follows an unprecedented row among members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) alliance of Gulf Arab states over Qatari support for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, and a verbal spat between Iraq and Saudi Arabia over violence in Iraq's Anbar province. The annual meeting of the 22-member League of Arab States is expected to agree on more humanitarian action in response to Syria's war, which has entered its fourth year and put a severe strain on neighbouring countries hosting refugees. However the row among Gulf Arab states is unlikely to take centrestage at Tuesday's gathering.

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